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The Transformation of Self Employment
Colaiacovo, Innessa; Dalton, Margaret G.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Over the past half-century, while self-employment has consistently accounted for around one in ten of the United States workforce, its composition has changed. Since 1970, industries with high startup capital requirements have declined from 53% of self-employment to 23%. This same time period...
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Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System
Begenau, Juliane; Landvoigt, Tim - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
How does the shadow banking system respond to changes in capital regulation of commercial banks? We propose a quantitative general equilibrium model with regulated and unregulated banks to study the unintended consequences of regulation. Tighter capital requirements for regulated banks cause...
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The Effects of the Emeryville Fair Workweek Ordinance on the Daily Lives of Low-Wage Workers and their Families
Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans; Gassman-Pines, Anna; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Emeryville, CA's Fair Workweek Ordinance (FWO) aimed to reduce service workers' schedule unpredictability by requiring large retail and food service employers to provide advanced notice of schedules and to compensate workers for last-minute schedule changes. From a 1-in-6 sample of Emeryville...
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Energy, Groundwater, and Crop Choice
Burlig, Fiona; Preonas, Louis; Woerman, Matt - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
in one of the world's most valuable agricultural areas: California. Using rich administrative data and exogenous … discrete choice model, we estimate that a counterfactual $10 per-acre-foot groundwater tax--a level consistent with California …
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Community College Enrollment and Student Success : Evidence from California Administrative Data
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Enrollment increased slightly at both the California State University and University of California systems in fall 2020 …, but the effects of the pandemic on enrollment in the California Community College system are mostly unknown and might … covering the universe of students in the 116-college California Community College system. We find that community college …
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Heterogeneity in the Impact of Privatizing Social Health Insurance : Evidence from California's Medicaid Program
Duggan, Mark G.; Garthwaite, Craig; Wang, Adelina Yanyue - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
this paper we study California's mandatory enrollment of the senior and persons with disabilities (SPD) population in MMC …
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Who Paid Los Angeles' Minimum Wage? A Side-by-Side Minimum Wage Experiment in Los Angeles County
Esposito, Christopher; Leamer, Edward E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
wage law and in 2016 the State of California passed a different minimum wage law. This created two minimum wage schedules … proximity to restaurants subject to the lower California State minimum wage. The effect of neighborhood income levels and …
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Headwinds and Tailwinds : Implications of Inefficient Retail Energy Pricing for Energy Substitution
Borenstein, Severin; Bushnell, James B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
the fuels with a large survey of California households' energy use, we calculate the distribution of annual fuel costs for …
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Where the Rubber Meets the Road : Pavement Damage Reduces Traffic Safety and Speed
Bock, Margaret; Cardazzi, Alexander; Humphreys, Brad R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-Aid Highway System (FAHS) roads in California show statistically and economically significant increases in vehicle crash rates and …
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Long-Term Resource Adequacy in Wholesale Electricity Markets with Significant Intermittent Renewables
Wolak, Frank A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
California and February 2021 in Texas demonstrate, supply shortfalls can have large economic and public health consequences. An …
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